Two men thrashed on train for mobile theft, videos go viral

Video clips of two men being stripped and whipped with belts at a railway platform and beaten again on a local train for allegedly stealing a mobile phone have gone viral with railway police launching an inquiry.

The videos have also been aired by some news channels, but the time, place and the identity of the persons involved are not known yet.

The PRO of the Government Railway Police said police were examining CCTV footage from various stations in Mumbai. “We haven’t yet got the CCTV footage of the incident,” he said, adding a DCP-rank officer would be conducting the probe.

One of the videos shows two persons hitting the two men, who were stripped, with belts on the platform. The men can be seen begging for mercy as those beating them up abuse and accuse them of stealing the mobile phone.

The second clip shows the same men being beaten up on a local train. The videos, apparently shot by some commuter, went viral first on WhatsApp.

Nobody has filed a complaint or informed the police about the incident, the PRO said, adding “we request the people to give any information they may have.”  Lawyer and human rights activist Abha Singh termed the incident as serious and said the police should first file an FIR.